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Land surveys relating to the Railway Belt and Peace River Block
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1885-1930 (Creation)
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- Canada. Department of the Interior
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13.5 m of textual records
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This series consists of correspondence files relating to surveys in British Columbia including:
68 boxes of files, mostly numbered chronologically, which contain branch correspondence with a particular surveyor for a season;
27 boxes of files relating to surveys of quarter sections in the Railway Belt and the Peace River Block. These files are arranged in order of their township, range, and meridian numbers, working from east to west. Peace River Block files are placed at the end of the series (boxes 24-27); and
6 boxes of Dominion Land Surveyors' diaries (146 volumes). Most of these diaries cover surveys along the CPR mainline.
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Transferred to the BC Archives at various dates from the Dept. of Lands, Forests, and Water Resources.
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Finding aid: box and file list: http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Document/Finding_Aids_Atom/GR-0001_TO_GR-0500/gr-0437.pdf
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Accession number(s): GR-0437
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- Canada. Department of the Interior (Subject)